Fifty years ago, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote: "Few of us seem to realize how insidious, how radical, how universal an evil racism is. Few of us realize that racism is man’s gravest threat to man, the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason, the maximum of cruelty for a minimum of thinking...

Jews traditionally believe that we are born into a covenant and its attendant obligations. What does that mean and where do those obligations stem from? Why are we obligated to do what God asks? This day of learning explored such questions as:
Jewish tradition assumes that rabbis are...

During our annual summer beit midrash program at Yeshivat Hadar, we host a Yom Iyyun (Day of Learning) on a particular topic, open to the public. In 2013, the topic was Boundaries: Jews and the Other. You can see and listen to the classes here.

Join the inaugural symposium in memory of Avi Schaefer for discussions of Jews and their relationship to power, perspectives from Jewish law, ethics, history and theology. Recordings from Janurary 2014.

In Our Lives and in Our Communities.
Join us as we embark on a search for God—we will draw upon how Jews have searched for God in the past to learn about how we might search for God in the present. Over the course of a day, we will deepen our understanding of how Judaism imagines we might be...